Executive Summary of Brohm and His Thoughts

Executive summary of Brohm and his thoughts

Brohm is an author who has written many essays on his different thoughts on sport and how it affects modern day lifestyles. It is almost like sport is a shiny cover up for the destruction that is going on behind it. I feel that this sums up what brohm is basically trying to say throughout is theories. Brohm believes that sport has different meanings depending on the different class and types of people. For some sport is an escape from day to day life and working, whilst on the other hand sport can be seen as a regular occurrence to keep fit a "leisure pursuit for the bourgeoisie" if you will and can become some peoples way of life. He also firmly believes that "The birth of world sports" was in Britain and came from England. Brohm says that because of this international authorities are "completely integrated into the mechanisms of imperialism" otherwise meaning that it is all about one country dominating others to become that ultimate winner. Can this be healthy for sport in general or is this not what sport is all about after all? Countries striving to be the very best that they can be. He has also stated that sport is now just "a consequence of the level of development of the productive forces under capitalism" basically meaning that private owners and people who invest money into sport are trying to squeeze every last penny out of the public and the people who want to see sport thrive but for the right reasons. Brohm dives deeper into the depths of capitalism asking the question if all this is healthy for modern day society. Even professional athletes are being worked so hard and being given so many different types of drugs to aid rehabilitation or to make an athlete stronger "Sport itself turns the body into an instrument, a type of machine" all so that they can contribute to their countries race to be the very best. Brohm says that sport is basically becoming alienating to the world and new people who want to try and play sport all because of this capitalist strategy that is now in place. He asks the question of when sport will become "liberating" again. He goes on to say that basically until we completely do away with this ideological view of sport that the government or any other elite sport authorities have in different countries then sport will only continue to go in this one direction that is to put